Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukraine clashes kill 15 civilians, Putin talks nixed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 15 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine clashes kill 18 civilians, Putin talks nixed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 18 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine clashes kill 18 civilians, Putin talks axed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 18 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine clashes kill 12 civilians, Putin talks nixed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 12 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine clashes kill 12 civilians, nix Putin talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 12 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to cancel a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Cup in Brazil. …read more Source: The West...
Putin ‘may’ meet Ukraine leader at World Cup (AFP)
Buenos Aires (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko at the World Cup final, his spokesman said Saturday as the crisis between the two countries escalated. …read more Source: The West...
Donetsk: a ghost town waiting for Ukraine’s final battle (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Donetsk, one of the last bastions of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, has become a ghost town as residents clog the roads and railway stations in a desperate scramble to escape advancing government troops. …read more Source: The West...
New US govt duties on overseas steel pipes (AP)
The US has imposed duties on imports of steel pipe from South Korea, India, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine field troops prepare for assault on Donetsk (AFP)
Olenivka (Ukraine) (AFP) – Among a sea of sunflowers, shirtless Ukranian soldiers shout advice to an earthmover’s driver who digs, in a thick cloud of fumes, trenches around their armoured vehicles, on which they are perched in an open field. …read more Source: The West...